A German immigrant named Frederick William Rueckheim invented Cracker Jack.  Reuckheim came to Chicago in 1872 to help clean up after the famous Chicago fire.  He also worked selling popcorn from a cart.  Together with his brother Louis, Reuckheim experimented and came up with a delightful popcorn candy, which the brothers decided to mass market.  Cracker Jack was first mass-produced and sold at the first Chicago World's Fair in 1893. (The Ferris Wheel, Aunt Jemima pancakes, and the ice cream cone were also introduced at the event.)

The treat was a mixture of popcorn, molasses, and peanuts and the initial name was "Candied Popcorn and Peanuts."  Legend has it that the name "Cracker Jack" came from a customer who, upon trying the treat, exclaimed, "That's a real
crackerjack!" and the name stuck.  "Crackerjack" was a slang expression at the time that meant "something very pleasing or excellent" and that is more likely to have been the origin of the name.  By 1896, the company devised a way to keep the popcorn kernels separate, the mixture had been difficult to handle because it tended to stick together in chunks.  The wax-sealed, moisture-proof box was introduced in 1899.  Immortalized in 1908 in the lyrics of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," Cracker Jack added small toy surprises in each package (to help boost sales) beginning in February 1912.  Since then, over 17 billion toys have been put into boxes.

The Sailor Jack character and his dog Bingo were introduced as registered trademark logos in 1919 and in use as early as 1918.  They were modeled on F.W. Rueckheim's grandson, Robert, and his dog.  The Cracker Jack Company was sold to Borden in 1964.  In 1997, Frito-Lay (the current manufacturers) purchased Cracker Jack from Borden.  (Source: Mary Bellis, About.com)

The sign "The Buck Stops Here" that was on President Truman's desk in his White House office was made in the Federal Reformatory at El Reno, Oklahoma. Fred A. Canfil, then United States Marshal for the Western District of Missouri and a friend of Mr. Truman, saw a similar sign while visiting the Reformatory and asked the Warden if a sign like it could be made for President Truman. The sign was made and mailed to the President on October 2, 1945.
 

The saying "the buck stops here" derives from the slang expression "pass the buck" which means passing the responsibility on to someone else. The latter expression is said to have originated with the game of poker, in which a marker or counter, frequently in frontier days a knife with a buckhorn handle, was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the "buck," as the counter came to be called, to the next player.

On more than one occasion President Truman referred to the desk sign in public statements. For example, in an address at the National War College on December 19, 1952 Mr. Truman said, "You know, it's easy for the Monday morning quarterback to say what the coach should have done, after the game is over. But when the decision is up before you -- and on my desk I have a motto which says 'The Buck Stops Here' -- the decision has to be made." In his farewell address to the American people given in January 1953, President Truman referred to this concept very specifically in asserting that, "The President--whoever he is--has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job."  The sign has been displayed at the Truman Library since 1957. 

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Bill, Jim, and Scott were at a convention together and were sharing a large suite on the top of a 75-story skyscraper. After a long day of meetings they were shocked to hear that the elevators in their hotel were broken and they would have to climb 75 flights of stairs to get to their room. Bill said to Jim and Scott, "Let's break the monotony of this unpleasant task by concentrating on something interesting. I'll tell jokes for 25 flights, and Jim can sing songs for 25 flights, and Scott can tell sad stories the rest of the way."

At the 26th floor Bill stopped telling jokes and Jim began to sing.

At the 51st floor Jim stopped singing and Scott began to tell sad stories. "I will tell my saddest story first," he said. "I left the room key in the car!"